Greetings Gates!
This year’s show and sale was a huge success! I am extremely grateful and proud of our performance this year. Not only did we have amazing sales numbers, but we received well over a dozen new member sign-ups and lots of positive feedback. Below, please see a message from Show/Sale Co-Chairs, Phuc Huynh and Kim Urman.
“Our 50th Annual Show and Sale has come and gone now. It was our biggest sale ever and we had the greatest number of exhibitors in the plant show. The public was in awe of the many varieties of cacti and succulents. All this success is because of you, our member volunteers. On behalf of the Show and Sale Committee, many thanks for your support and time.
Setup and cleanup crew; what an amazing group of volunteer workers: Karen Pederson, Jessica Hemsley, Kirk and Amy Taylor, Mike Strieby, Chris Sedmack, Jon Pinson, June Scales, Mark Brown, Patrick Reninger, Sandy Wall, Tom Perez, Elias Aparicio, Nicole Oceguera, Michael Frank, Mike Madrigal, Miriam Miles, Martin Look.
Hospitality team; thanks for feeding us with such yummies: Karen and Chris Roholt, Nanette Pratini.
Register/cashier crew; thanks for collecting the money: Huong Huynh, Jeff Loew, Mike Strieby, Bryan Francia, Micky Leyva.
General volunteer; your time is greatly appreciated: April Fritz, Myra Appel, Susan Craford, Diane Pippin.
Clerking and tabulation; thanks for crunching the numbers: Nicole Oeguera, Karen Fleisher, Teresa Wassman, Elias Aparicio, Rebecca Wooster, Kathryn Ravenwood, Judy Horne, Candi Gray, Jeff Loew.
Judges panel; Thanks for your expertise: Gary Duke, Woody Minnich, Manny Rivera, Peter Walkowiak.
Lastly, but not the least, a huge thank you to all the members and vendor exhibitors who entered their plants in the show. What a spectacular display for awesome succulents!”
At the end of the newsletter, I have included our trophy winners along with some entry statistics. Can you believe we had 438 entries in the show this year!
Our speaker for June is Sandy Masuo of The Huntington. This is her first time speaking to Gates. We look forward to her talk on the amazing world of succulents.
See you all soon!
All my best,
Jeffrey Loew
Gates Cactus and Succulent Society 